It's good enough for him, but not his own people. This guy is a menace. He's neither stupid nor insane and is in fact the closest thing the region has ever seen to a leader who could fill in the shoes of a Middle Eastern Hitler. Read some of Mike Wallace's comments about him after an interview with him, if you think he is such a joke.
They're reportedly losing over $1M a month now due to increasing bandwidth needs. I seriously doubt that AdSense is going to work for them. They are going to need to put in some good, quick advertisements into their videos and they are going to need to start hiring a small army of people to watch video submissions and check for copyright violations.
To put it euphemistically, they have their work cut out for them.
Wiretapping, when restrained by something like the 4th amendment (which Tony Blair would kill even faster than Dubya if Britain had it), is a good thing. There need to be checks and balances that allow the police to spy on people who a reasonable person with the evidence would conclude is a dangerous criminal. Society cannot function with dangerous criminals having a decisive upper-hand. Fortunately, in America, our founders gave us a realistic balance. I cannot speak for Britain, but I would assume thatit used to be pretty good considering the country's liberal history.
As I have said, the problem is with Islam itself. Enough political correctness, please. Islam is a religion that exhorts its followers to violence. If you don't believe me, read these verses. Some of them are so clearly pro-violence against unbelievers that they don't need a "context" to be "properly understood." Now, with the exception of radical Hinduism and unorthodox strains of pseudo-Christian religions, almost all modern religion outside of Islam considers peace to be a virtue.
And just as a warning to those who want to cite a few violent verses in the Bible to me as "proof" that Judaism and Christianity are as bad as Islam, I can cite just as many direct commands from God that override any "general" interpretation of those.
Who are we to say that China shouldn't chop up its ethnic minorities and use their corpses as mulch for agriculture? Who are we to say that Germany didn't have a right to slaughter all of those Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, etc?
Oh, is the "right to life" more universal than the right to not be imprisoned or executed for speaking your mind?
Freedom is fundamentally the right to be left alone if you are not abandoning your spouse and children and are living in peace with others' life, liberty and property. It's not any more complicated than that.
Man is not an island, but a healthy, free man is a peninsula.
If you think that kids should be able to have unregulated access to porn and violent video games, can I assume that you also support their being able to get a concealed carry permit and be able to buy a handgun since clearly they're mature enough to handle the first two things? If you don't think they're mature enough for the latter, then it's obvious they aren't not mature enough for the former.
Who needs Soviet-style internal passports when they can not only GPS-track your cell phone, but can also track how fast you are moving. Here comes version 2.0: it automatically calls the police and tells them approximately where they will need to be to catch you based on your current speed and direction!
If you're smart, you can get by on someone else's dime be it family, student loans, scholarships or GI bill money. It's the best time to start a business. In fact, it is the time when a young person can probably be at his or her safest while doing it. They have access to a lot of cheap help and free mentorship.
Being a libertarian who follows civil liberties cases I was expecting a combination of the following:
1) A story about punk shitheads beating up an old person and getting slapped on the wrist for it. 2) A Jack Thompson type story about gamers actually shooting each other. 3) Generally another fine example of the British government screwing its law-abiding citizens.
And it turned out to be just a bunch of gamers having fun. What a nice change of pace.
Now, who wants to place a bet on how long before a bunch of ASBOs get handed out and the police go after this scourge while cheerfully ignoring the yobs who, in America, would be on the receiving end of a handgun, but are a protected class in Britain? Just kidding, FBI, don't arrest me...
Half of what I learned in high school, actually probably 2/3-3/4 of it, I learned online at school or on my own time. A lot of the stuff that I read was at one point or another restricted, like a lot of libertarian stuff (including the party site) was restricted because it advocated drug use.
That's how the pea-brained morons that make most filtering software think. Yet a friend of mine would pull up porn sites like pink.com (back in the day) and laugh about it.
I have been out of college for 6 months and so am young enough to remember high school life. It was a waste of my time. I plan to homeschool my kids because they shouldn't have to "fight the system" to get anything interesting out of it.
An insecure, RFID-driven passport is the perfect thing for making it too dangerous for Americans to travel safely abroad. If an American had one of these in Lebanon, Hezbollah could walk through a public place with a RFID reader and discretely find some good targets of hostage-taking opportunity. It'd be easier for the Chinese police, for example, to track American visitors.
Don't go abroad! Don't see the world except through the lens of CNNABCCBSNBCFOXNPR! That's how the political class wants it. A population that is scared to travel is a population that can't as easily see the world on its own and make its own decisions.
Anywhere within 30-40 miles of Washington D.C. As long as you have lived a decently clean life and aren't showing signs of severe character flaws, the job security alone is worth it.
Public policy wonks love software patents because in Public Policy Wonk Happer Wonderland, systems that work on paper work in real life. What should scare legislators is that our companies have resorted to patenting so much crap like this. It means that America is getting lazy and dangerously short-sighted. I would argue that cases like this prove why America needs to introduce some danger, not protection, into its companies' environment. Danger makes people competitive and responsive to change. Security makes them complacent.
Did anyone actually find a defense of his central argument in that "editorial?" All I saw was a bunch of Mark Shuttleworth cheerleading. Now, here's why he is wrong:
1) RedHat is a large Linux vendor and gives business people someone to deal with reliably. 2) RedHat has an entrenched userbase. 3) RedHat Enterprise Linux is a good distribution in its own right. 4) RedHat has great support from "enterprise vendors" such as Oracle.
RedHat is threatened, but it's manageable. It's the sort of competition that will make them better, not threaten their ability to survive and thrive.
(Disclaimer: I'm a libertarian, not a supporter of either major party and arguably am as amused by the Dems as I am bitterly spiteful toward the Republicans)
There is a greater culture of voter fraud at work here. The Democrats in particular are quick to scream about voter fraud, voter disenfranchisement whenever an ID-less black person tries to vote and things like that, that go back well before Bush "stole the election." They even have been known to put in fraudulent votes in the names of dead people.
Both major parties are bad about this. The Republicans now have leverage that can allow them to kick the Democrats squarely in the pants for all of the years of having to fight uphill against democratic-lead voter fraud. They aren't going to give up on Diebold lightly.
As I have said before, I think that voter fraud by a normal voter should be a simple felony. Six months, permanent revocation of all voting rights, even with a pardon. However, any conspiracy should be legally classified as a conspiracy to overthrow an elected government because that is precisely what organized voter fraud is! It is trying to use the system to bring down an elected government.
Take a bunch of these Republicrats, especially a few rich and powerful ones, out and give them a firing squad for attempting to overthrow the United States government. That will put a dent into voter fraud like this.
And what he doesn't want talked about is the fact that he would like to see oil companies taxed around $4B to subsidize this for California. Great, just what the public needs. More taxes on the cost of their already expensive fuel. Ethanol becoming cheaper? Sure "looks" that way when taxes artificially inflate the cost of oil even more.
I'm against subsidies, but if you're going to do them, then do it on things that make sense like that Tesla Roadster. If I were in CA, I'd be furious at this elitist ass who wants me to pay for a technology that is useless to me. If the people of CA are smart, they'll send a $100M in R&D funds to Tesla to build general purpose cars instead of this rich man's scheme to line his own pockets.
Why would established players not hire these people? They are skilled and motivated people who are passionate about their work. If anything, this is the cheap way out for the established players. What would be a headline is if someone was passed up because of their political or religious views, despite being an extremely talened content producer.
There were still a barrier between the NSA, CIA and law enforcement. Back before Bush, even if they spied on you, you couldn't be prosecuted with the information the intelligence agencies got on you using their "special spook methods." Now, people have a good reason to worry.
All things considered, nothing that Bush is doing will end Islamic terrorism. The harsh truth is that yes, there are millions of good people who are Muslims and do no support terrorism. There are, unfortunately, far more Muslims who are at least sympathetic to terrorism than there are religionists of any other persuasion. These are not people that we want in our borders--period! But... we can't know a person's heart, so what do we do? I say we end immigration from Islamic countries. Allow them to come over on a guarded visa that is routinely checked up on to work for a few years, but then they have to go home.
Look, the only way to fight Islamic terrorism without falling prey to more of it at home, and not violating the rights of our citizens, non-Muslim and Muslim alike, is to keep new Islamic immigrants out of our country. There is no fundamental human right to live in a country of your choice. This is not an ethnic thing as I'd have just as much problem allowing a white Australian who admitted to being a Muslim come here as I would a Saudi. The only two countries I could see getting any sort of exception might be Albania and Turkey.
All religions have violent pasts because for a long period of time, the world was a truly brutal and uncivilized place. It's gotten reasonably better in most parts. We can overlook the Islamic jihads of old out of respect for the crimes of the state churchs and all other official religious bodies. A complete religious Tabula Rasa for the 21st century. Unfortunately for one religion, it's slate will get smeared in the blood of non-believers in oh... *looks at his watch* probably within the next hour thanks to a certain state-supported religion's believers.
Here in America we may look down on that decision, but our schools have fallen apart precisely because we have allowed so many different distractions from the "3 Rs." I applaud the Indian schools for rejecting this because it is a decent idea in theory, but not for those who are already getting left behind by badly staffed and equipped public schools. What India needs is a competitive market for education, not cheap laptops.
What the poor countries really need are:
1) Good government that is limited, efficient and run by ethical people with enlightened liberal (as in Locke, not Marx) attitudes toward individuals and their worth. 2) Investment into their infrastructure to enable higher and longer quality of life. 3) Populations with a good, liberal education that isn't just focused on math and science.
Sony has managed to do two things: create an extremely expensive and lackluster product that is overhyped and piss off a lot of people to the point that they root for Microsoft. Yes, root for Microsoft! When was the last time that a company so badly screwed its customers that somebody wished that Microsoft would take them down hard?
Blogging is not something new and revolutionary. It is the next evolution of maintaining a website. It really is a good example of software engineering moving website development forward. Standardized protocols, layout systems and a normal person-friendly user interface for everything.
WordPress and Movable Type are very good programs and have done wonders for maintaining a personal website. Now we can focus on the content, not the layout and maintainence because they offer powerful theme management and have very flexibly-designed systems for all common personal website needs. So what if most people use it for just yaking about their personal lives? What gives anyone the right to say that this is an invalid use of their time and money?
The only people crowing about blogging and journalism are the political bloggers who are eager to try to replace their print publishing counterparts--and they're not going to do it. The average major print publication is run by people who can keep going full time whereas most bloggers can't come even close.
Look, you cannot force people to play it safe. There are so many examples of that sort of thing failing that it should just be taken as a fact of life. Most people simply don't value safety, like they don't value natural rights, until it's too late and the evil people, criminal or government agent, are hurting them.
Wireless safety is part of that. Part of the problem is that Windows has a very clunky user interface for specifying a strong encryption key. Something as painless as PGP would be very nice.
The police have a valid concern that criminals could exploit these holes and frame ordinary people. However, technical solutions don't work except in simple cases. In fact, in non-"high tech" cases, it wouldn't be a real concern. Where are the laws requiring people to lock up their home so that someone cannot break in and use their bedroom as a sniper post? The lock is hardly a hindrance to these sort of people.
In most crimes, the wireless security is beside the point. People can crack it with enough time and dedication. Worrying about wireless security problems is akin to worrying about a hershey's kiss making you fat while you have a bucket of fried chicken, a bucket of gravy-slathered mash potatos and a 2 liter bottle of coke for your own consumption.
Was blogging against her company's client, on the client's network on client time. People like her get paid extremely well. It's a very, very lucrative market for people with clean legal records, or mostly clean legal records, and programming skills. She got axed for timecard fraud, not blogging. If she did this on her own time, without using client computers, they wouldn't have done anything. However, she not only identified herself, but broke almost all of the basic rules of conduct for her market.
This woman is an idiot. Maybe she considers it a virtue to be "loud-mouthed," but her being a "mouthy bitch" just cost her a clearance for at least the next five years. Most likely, because it's time card fraud, she'll be barred for life from contracting with the CIA or any other major agency.
Seems they've got reason to worry after all. The "we all do it" argument is bullshit. China's government is notorious for economic espionage and many of its corporations, probably most, are owned by military officers or the military as an organization. The fears about China are grounded in reality.
"We already have enough of your 'free bird cage liner and toilet paper' for the rest of the month. Please wait until next month before delivering anymore.'
Respectfully,
LA district court
Slashdot Mirror
It's good enough for him, but not his own people. This guy is a menace. He's neither stupid nor insane and is in fact the closest thing the region has ever seen to a leader who could fill in the shoes of a Middle Eastern Hitler. Read some of Mike Wallace's comments about him after an interview with him, if you think he is such a joke.
They're reportedly losing over $1M a month now due to increasing bandwidth needs. I seriously doubt that AdSense is going to work for them. They are going to need to put in some good, quick advertisements into their videos and they are going to need to start hiring a small army of people to watch video submissions and check for copyright violations.
To put it euphemistically, they have their work cut out for them.
Wiretapping, when restrained by something like the 4th amendment (which Tony Blair would kill even faster than Dubya if Britain had it), is a good thing. There need to be checks and balances that allow the police to spy on people who a reasonable person with the evidence would conclude is a dangerous criminal. Society cannot function with dangerous criminals having a decisive upper-hand. Fortunately, in America, our founders gave us a realistic balance. I cannot speak for Britain, but I would assume thatit used to be pretty good considering the country's liberal history.
As I have said, the problem is with Islam itself. Enough political correctness, please. Islam is a religion that exhorts its followers to violence. If you don't believe me, read these verses. Some of them are so clearly pro-violence against unbelievers that they don't need a "context" to be "properly understood." Now, with the exception of radical Hinduism and unorthodox strains of pseudo-Christian religions, almost all modern religion outside of Islam considers peace to be a virtue.
And just as a warning to those who want to cite a few violent verses in the Bible to me as "proof" that Judaism and Christianity are as bad as Islam, I can cite just as many direct commands from God that override any "general" interpretation of those.
Who are we to say that China shouldn't chop up its ethnic minorities and use their corpses as mulch for agriculture? Who are we to say that Germany didn't have a right to slaughter all of those Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, etc?
Oh, is the "right to life" more universal than the right to not be imprisoned or executed for speaking your mind?
Freedom is fundamentally the right to be left alone if you are not abandoning your spouse and children and are living in peace with others' life, liberty and property. It's not any more complicated than that.
Man is not an island, but a healthy, free man is a peninsula.
If you think that kids should be able to have unregulated access to porn and violent video games, can I assume that you also support their being able to get a concealed carry permit and be able to buy a handgun since clearly they're mature enough to handle the first two things? If you don't think they're mature enough for the latter, then it's obvious they aren't not mature enough for the former.
Who needs Soviet-style internal passports when they can not only GPS-track your cell phone, but can also track how fast you are moving. Here comes version 2.0: it automatically calls the police and tells them approximately where they will need to be to catch you based on your current speed and direction!
60 single men means that she wants 60 men, one at a time!
If you're smart, you can get by on someone else's dime be it family, student loans, scholarships or GI bill money. It's the best time to start a business. In fact, it is the time when a young person can probably be at his or her safest while doing it. They have access to a lot of cheap help and free mentorship.
Being a libertarian who follows civil liberties cases I was expecting a combination of the following:
1) A story about punk shitheads beating up an old person and getting slapped on the wrist for it.
2) A Jack Thompson type story about gamers actually shooting each other.
3) Generally another fine example of the British government screwing its law-abiding citizens.
And it turned out to be just a bunch of gamers having fun. What a nice change of pace.
Now, who wants to place a bet on how long before a bunch of ASBOs get handed out and the police go after this scourge while cheerfully ignoring the yobs who, in America, would be on the receiving end of a handgun, but are a protected class in Britain? Just kidding, FBI, don't arrest me...
Half of what I learned in high school, actually probably 2/3-3/4 of it, I learned online at school or on my own time. A lot of the stuff that I read was at one point or another restricted, like a lot of libertarian stuff (including the party site) was restricted because it advocated drug use.
That's how the pea-brained morons that make most filtering software think. Yet a friend of mine would pull up porn sites like pink.com (back in the day) and laugh about it.
I have been out of college for 6 months and so am young enough to remember high school life. It was a waste of my time. I plan to homeschool my kids because they shouldn't have to "fight the system" to get anything interesting out of it.
An insecure, RFID-driven passport is the perfect thing for making it too dangerous for Americans to travel safely abroad. If an American had one of these in Lebanon, Hezbollah could walk through a public place with a RFID reader and discretely find some good targets of hostage-taking opportunity. It'd be easier for the Chinese police, for example, to track American visitors.
Don't go abroad! Don't see the world except through the lens of CNNABCCBSNBCFOXNPR! That's how the political class wants it. A population that is scared to travel is a population that can't as easily see the world on its own and make its own decisions.
Anywhere within 30-40 miles of Washington D.C. As long as you have lived a decently clean life and aren't showing signs of severe character flaws, the job security alone is worth it.
Public policy wonks love software patents because in Public Policy Wonk Happer Wonderland, systems that work on paper work in real life. What should scare legislators is that our companies have resorted to patenting so much crap like this. It means that America is getting lazy and dangerously short-sighted. I would argue that cases like this prove why America needs to introduce some danger, not protection, into its companies' environment. Danger makes people competitive and responsive to change. Security makes them complacent.
Did anyone actually find a defense of his central argument in that "editorial?" All I saw was a bunch of Mark Shuttleworth cheerleading. Now, here's why he is wrong:
1) RedHat is a large Linux vendor and gives business people someone to deal with reliably.
2) RedHat has an entrenched userbase.
3) RedHat Enterprise Linux is a good distribution in its own right.
4) RedHat has great support from "enterprise vendors" such as Oracle.
RedHat is threatened, but it's manageable. It's the sort of competition that will make them better, not threaten their ability to survive and thrive.
(Disclaimer: I'm a libertarian, not a supporter of either major party and arguably am as amused by the Dems as I am bitterly spiteful toward the Republicans)
There is a greater culture of voter fraud at work here. The Democrats in particular are quick to scream about voter fraud, voter disenfranchisement whenever an ID-less black person tries to vote and things like that, that go back well before Bush "stole the election." They even have been known to put in fraudulent votes in the names of dead people.
Both major parties are bad about this. The Republicans now have leverage that can allow them to kick the Democrats squarely in the pants for all of the years of having to fight uphill against democratic-lead voter fraud. They aren't going to give up on Diebold lightly.
As I have said before, I think that voter fraud by a normal voter should be a simple felony. Six months, permanent revocation of all voting rights, even with a pardon. However, any conspiracy should be legally classified as a conspiracy to overthrow an elected government because that is precisely what organized voter fraud is! It is trying to use the system to bring down an elected government.
Take a bunch of these Republicrats, especially a few rich and powerful ones, out and give them a firing squad for attempting to overthrow the United States government. That will put a dent into voter fraud like this.
And what he doesn't want talked about is the fact that he would like to see oil companies taxed around $4B to subsidize this for California. Great, just what the public needs. More taxes on the cost of their already expensive fuel. Ethanol becoming cheaper? Sure "looks" that way when taxes artificially inflate the cost of oil even more.
I'm against subsidies, but if you're going to do them, then do it on things that make sense like that Tesla Roadster. If I were in CA, I'd be furious at this elitist ass who wants me to pay for a technology that is useless to me. If the people of CA are smart, they'll send a $100M in R&D funds to Tesla to build general purpose cars instead of this rich man's scheme to line his own pockets.
Why would established players not hire these people? They are skilled and motivated people who are passionate about their work. If anything, this is the cheap way out for the established players. What would be a headline is if someone was passed up because of their political or religious views, despite being an extremely talened content producer.
There were still a barrier between the NSA, CIA and law enforcement. Back before Bush, even if they spied on you, you couldn't be prosecuted with the information the intelligence agencies got on you using their "special spook methods." Now, people have a good reason to worry.
All things considered, nothing that Bush is doing will end Islamic terrorism. The harsh truth is that yes, there are millions of good people who are Muslims and do no support terrorism. There are, unfortunately, far more Muslims who are at least sympathetic to terrorism than there are religionists of any other persuasion. These are not people that we want in our borders--period! But... we can't know a person's heart, so what do we do? I say we end immigration from Islamic countries. Allow them to come over on a guarded visa that is routinely checked up on to work for a few years, but then they have to go home.
Look, the only way to fight Islamic terrorism without falling prey to more of it at home, and not violating the rights of our citizens, non-Muslim and Muslim alike, is to keep new Islamic immigrants out of our country. There is no fundamental human right to live in a country of your choice. This is not an ethnic thing as I'd have just as much problem allowing a white Australian who admitted to being a Muslim come here as I would a Saudi. The only two countries I could see getting any sort of exception might be Albania and Turkey.
All religions have violent pasts because for a long period of time, the world was a truly brutal and uncivilized place. It's gotten reasonably better in most parts. We can overlook the Islamic jihads of old out of respect for the crimes of the state churchs and all other official religious bodies. A complete religious Tabula Rasa for the 21st century. Unfortunately for one religion, it's slate will get smeared in the blood of non-believers in oh... *looks at his watch* probably within the next hour thanks to a certain state-supported religion's believers.
Here in America we may look down on that decision, but our schools have fallen apart precisely because we have allowed so many different distractions from the "3 Rs." I applaud the Indian schools for rejecting this because it is a decent idea in theory, but not for those who are already getting left behind by badly staffed and equipped public schools. What India needs is a competitive market for education, not cheap laptops.
What the poor countries really need are:
1) Good government that is limited, efficient and run by ethical people with enlightened liberal (as in Locke, not Marx) attitudes toward individuals and their worth.
2) Investment into their infrastructure to enable higher and longer quality of life.
3) Populations with a good, liberal education that isn't just focused on math and science.
Sony has managed to do two things: create an extremely expensive and lackluster product that is overhyped and piss off a lot of people to the point that they root for Microsoft. Yes, root for Microsoft! When was the last time that a company so badly screwed its customers that somebody wished that Microsoft would take them down hard?
Blogging is not something new and revolutionary. It is the next evolution of maintaining a website. It really is a good example of software engineering moving website development forward. Standardized protocols, layout systems and a normal person-friendly user interface for everything.
WordPress and Movable Type are very good programs and have done wonders for maintaining a personal website. Now we can focus on the content, not the layout and maintainence because they offer powerful theme management and have very flexibly-designed systems for all common personal website needs. So what if most people use it for just yaking about their personal lives? What gives anyone the right to say that this is an invalid use of their time and money?
The only people crowing about blogging and journalism are the political bloggers who are eager to try to replace their print publishing counterparts--and they're not going to do it. The average major print publication is run by people who can keep going full time whereas most bloggers can't come even close.
Look, you cannot force people to play it safe. There are so many examples of that sort of thing failing that it should just be taken as a fact of life. Most people simply don't value safety, like they don't value natural rights, until it's too late and the evil people, criminal or government agent, are hurting them.
Wireless safety is part of that. Part of the problem is that Windows has a very clunky user interface for specifying a strong encryption key. Something as painless as PGP would be very nice.
The police have a valid concern that criminals could exploit these holes and frame ordinary people. However, technical solutions don't work except in simple cases. In fact, in non-"high tech" cases, it wouldn't be a real concern. Where are the laws requiring people to lock up their home so that someone cannot break in and use their bedroom as a sniper post? The lock is hardly a hindrance to these sort of people.
In most crimes, the wireless security is beside the point. People can crack it with enough time and dedication. Worrying about wireless security problems is akin to worrying about a hershey's kiss making you fat while you have a bucket of fried chicken, a bucket of gravy-slathered mash potatos and a 2 liter bottle of coke for your own consumption.
Was blogging against her company's client, on the client's network on client time. People like her get paid extremely well. It's a very, very lucrative market for people with clean legal records, or mostly clean legal records, and programming skills. She got axed for timecard fraud, not blogging. If she did this on her own time, without using client computers, they wouldn't have done anything. However, she not only identified herself, but broke almost all of the basic rules of conduct for her market.
This woman is an idiot. Maybe she considers it a virtue to be "loud-mouthed," but her being a "mouthy bitch" just cost her a clearance for at least the next five years. Most likely, because it's time card fraud, she'll be barred for life from contracting with the CIA or any other major agency.
Seems they've got reason to worry after all. The "we all do it" argument is bullshit. China's government is notorious for economic espionage and many of its corporations, probably most, are owned by military officers or the military as an organization. The fears about China are grounded in reality.
"We already have enough of your 'free bird cage liner and toilet paper' for the rest of the month. Please wait until next month before delivering anymore.' Respectfully, LA district court